“Rumors of the Loring Theater’s demise have been exaggerated” – reports appeared Monday afternoon that all of this fall’s scheduled acts at the 1920s-era jewel box had been cancelled and that the theater was closing. Says the theater’s director, “We are not going out of business … [we’re] trying to hang on as best we can.”
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Digital Albums See Surge In Sales
“Digital downloads now account for more than a quarter of total album sales, up from 17.5% in 2010, as Britons’ appetite for online music continues to defy a fall in overall music sales.”
Canadian TV – The Rich Get Richer (And The Programming Suffers)
“You think they’re fretting in the TV racket? Ha bloody ha. Recently the CRTC released figures about the commercial Canadian TV racket showing that its operating revenues in broadcasting came to $2.15-billion in 2010. That’s an increase of 9 per cent from 2009.”
Rebirthing The Pasadena Playhouse (And The Guy Who Runs It)
“Few theater companies seem better qualified at this moment than the Pasadena Playhouse to dramatize disruption amid straitened circumstances and the faith and tenacity it takes to carry on.”
NBC Ratings – Half Of What They Used To Be
“NBC is averaging 6.9 million viewers in prime time this season, fourth behind CBS, Fox and ABC – nearly 2 million behind third-place ABC, the Nielsen Co. said. That’s down 32 percent from NBC’s average five years ago and a whopping 55 percent off the 15.4 million people who watched NBC on a typical evening during the must-see TV era in 1996-97.”
Cleaning Lady Mistakenly Scrubs Away Art
“A $1.1 million art installation in Germany’s Ostwall Museum was damaged by a cleaning woman who mistook a hand-painted patina for dirt and scrubbed it away.”
Best Play Of The 21st Century? Not To Start A Bar Fight, But …
Is it August: Osage County? Take Me Out? What about The Motherfucker With the Hat? No: Try a Kenneth Lonergan piece instead.
Helene Grimaud – The Pianist Who Goes Her Own Way
“She has this willingness to take a piece of music apart and free herself from the general body of practice that has grown up around it.”
A New Grittier Reality Movie
Variously identified as “mumblecore,” “indie,” “neorealist” or even “neo-neorealist,” these are movies that have almost nothing in common with Hollywood spectacles and escapist star vehicles. Instead, they deliver a level of authenticity, immediacy and emotional transparency that are instantly recognizable to an audience that increasingly lives on Facebook, YouTube and Twitter.